Quick Summary

The default layout consists of a wrapper div named "rap" and the credits bar at the bottom. The wrapper div in turn contains the blog title (h1 header) and two other divs named "content" and "menu".

A number of HTML tags are used for just one purpose:

h2 for the date at the top of each post

h3 for the story titles

p for the body of each post (and the "credits" bar at the bottom of the page).

Controlling the appearance of your blog can take two forms:

Assigning styles to these selectors and their subdivisions (edit the wp-layout.css file or just make your own from scratch)

For more control, change the selectors themselves.

For example, who says that the links have to be part of the "menu" div? Perhaps you have lots of them and want to put them somewhere elese on he page. For this kind of change, edit the index.php file to break up the "menu" div, create new divs etc.